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#youngfeminists: One hundred years later, has enough really changed? – @HuffPostUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #vivelafeminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #quickhits, #women / April 2, 2018So we ask ourselves, 100 years later, has enough really changed? Harvey Weinstein has been able to get away with the assault and (allegedly) rape of women for over three decades without consequence ...
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#vivelafeminism: Remembering a turning point for feminism – @MsMagazine
By feimineach / in #quickhits / March 19, 2018No group had ever picketed the White House before, according to Jennifer Krafchik, Acting Director, Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument. Many viewed women picketing during wartime as unp...
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#anonymouswasawoman: How the devastating 1918 flu pandemic helped advance US women’s rights – @ConversationUK
By feimineach / in #feminism, #sociology, #politics, #womensrights, #equality, #gender, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits, #sexism, #women / March 4, 2018When disaster strikes, it can change the fabric of a society – often through the sheer loss of human life. The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami left 35,000 children without one or both parents in Indonesia...
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#anonymouswasawoman: British women, the vote, and the fascist movement
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / April 20, 2017Excerpted from Hurrah for the Blackshirts!: Fascists and Fascism in Britain Between the Wars by Martin Pugh. Published by Penguin Random House UK. Sir Oswald Mosley’s immediate appeal consisted in ...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Protests to end segregation continued well after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 29, 2017thesociologicalcinema:Protests to end segregation continued well after the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. (c) on link.
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884-1966) was the first woman
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 23, 2017celebratingamazingwomen: Florence Ellinwood Allen (1884-1966)was the first woman to serve on a state supreme court, and one of the two firstto serve as a US federal judge. She studied Political Scien...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: the women’s protest that sparked the Russian revolution
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 15, 2017The first day of the Russian revolution – 8 March (23 February in the old Russian calendar) – was International Women’s Day, an important day in the socialist calendar. By midday of that day in 19...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: One hundred years ago this month, the Women’s Auxiliary Corps
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 13, 2017#Repost @standardissuemagazine ・・・ One hundred years ago this month, the Women’s Auxiliary Corps was founded. By the time the war ended in November 1918, more than 57,000 women had served. We’re celeb...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Remembering the Matchgirls’ Strike – @progressonline
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 13, 2017The received wisdom is that the heroic London dockers of 1889 led the way towards social justice, greater equality and spurred the foundation of the Labour movement.In fact it was London’s working cla...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #herstory: colorized photos from early suffrage marches bring women’s history to life
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / March 13, 2017profeminist: “In 1909, at the original such march, it was for better working conditions. This year, the day will be an occasion for the movement associated with January’s post-Inauguration Women’...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Who writes our history? @bitchmedia
By feimineach / in #feminism, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / February 20, 2017Who writes our history? @bitchmedia History isn’t static—it’s the stories we tell ourselves about the past. And that story changes depending on who’s doing the telling. On this episode, we explore wh...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: the women revolutionaries who calmly knit during executions
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / December 30, 2016Horror spectators: the women revolutionaries who calmly knit during executions The women were known to hang around the guillotine, waiting for the heads to roll. They got to know the ...
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#picturethis: “oppression” – @riandundon
By feimineach / in #picturethis, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / December 21, 2016#picturethis: “oppression” - @riandundon These Algerian women were forced to remove their veils to be photographed in 1960If looks could kill, then a camera aimed at an unwilling subject is an inst...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Anne Frank may have been discovered by chance, new study says
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / December 17, 2016Anne Frank may have been discovered by chance, new study says The Anne Frank House museum in Amsterdam believes the address could have been raided over ration fraud.Researchers say the police who foun...
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#womenslives: “Unaccustomed to such an overwhelming case of nerves…”
By feimineach / in #womenslives, #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / December 15, 2016newyorker:“Unaccustomed to such an overwhelming case of nerves, I was unable to continue. I hadn’t forgotten the words that were now a part of me. I was simply unable to draw them out.” Read Patti Smi...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: The feminist triumph of Clinton’s run – @voxdotcom
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / November 13, 2016(I am happy to take the point, even if it does feel like we’re clutching at straws a bit.)•••Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign led to fresh attention to a related landmark moment in US history: ...
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Carrie Mae Weems
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / November 1, 2016theparisreview: Carrie Mae Weems, “Untitled (Phone),” 1990, black-and-white photograph, silver print.
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: simone de beauvoir, jean paul sartre
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / November 1, 2016simone de beauvoir, jean paul sartrefrom History in Moments on twitter.
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: Sylvia Plath was born on this day in 1932
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / October 27, 2016theparisreview:Sylvia Plath was born on this day in 1932. Listen to her read her poem “Daddy.”
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#anonymouswasawoman: #HERstory: ”A political button, circa 1918, promotes woman suffrage.”
By feimineach / in #anonymouswasawoman, #quickhits / October 23, 2016”A political button, circa 1918, promotes woman suffrage.” Courtesy of Special Collections & Archives, Georgia State University Library. Source,
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